hey there, i have a bowblr question for you!
i am pretty new to this, and haven’t messed with archery for a while, so i am not very skilled yet. but i have had a heck of a problem with my arrows fishtailing like crazy every which way. i have a plastic composite recurve bow with about a 20 lb draw.
i think it has been because i was using the arrow shelf and the arrows i have are carbon (very light shaft) with plastic vanes (much stiffer than feathers).
until yesterday i used the arrow shelf built in. i stuck a plastic arrow rest similar to the picture on there and was using that today. i think that was the main source of the problem. much better. but i still have some trouble getting consistent results, and the arrows now consistently land on target with the tails sticking out to the left a bit. i shoot right handed.
do you have any advice on how to adjust how i shoot so that my arrows will fly true? every once in a while they would land dead on square a couple times in a row. i think it is my draw.
also, do you have any tips on aiming, or how to figure where your reference point should be? i consistently, ALWAYS seem to shoot high.
thanks!!!! ------ Alright, so this is a problem I had with my composite bow I never actually fixed, before I moved onto wooden bows. However, I do know that the sources of these sorts of problems are: the arrow weight, the fletchings, the spine, the rest, or tuning of the bow. Since you’ve replaced the rest and saw and improvement, we can stop considering that one. The fletchings are probably the next thing I’d consider, vanes are super stiff like you’ve said, and have tendency to make the arrow push off of the bow body. If you’re shooting right handed, the vanes would make the arrow back push off to the left, which sounds like the problem you’re experiencing. Also, what spine do you have on your arrows? In addition, you could try replacing the tips with heavier (higher grain) ones. Also, check this out for tuning of your bow: http://www.eastonarchery.com/downloads/tuning-guide Cheers man, tell me how it goes.